Press Release

One of the most accomplished and acclaimed engineering companies in
motorsports gets its speed from the cloud with the broadest and deepest
functionality

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 28, 2017--
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced that Toyota Racing Development (TRD), the in-house
engineering division for Toyota and Lexus motorsports programs, has gone
all-in on AWS. Building its race intelligence system on the cloud with
the most functionality has helped TRD’s teams win NASCAR races. TRD uses
AWS’s industry-leading cloud services to create mission-critical
applications that enable its crews to improve precision, consistency,
and speed during practice runs and in competition. These race
intelligence applications collect data from vehicles and their
environments and apply real-time analytics and machine learning to
better understand how a vehicle may handle on any track under any
circumstance.

“The opportunity for technology to impact how races are won cannot be
overstated, and the reliability, flexibility, and speed that AWS
provides to our engineers across the globe unequivocally helps us win
races,” said Chris Andronaco, Technology Director at Toyota Racing
Development. “Our cars recently finished first through fourth at Watkins
Glen International, and this would not have happened without our
engineers—both on and off the track—leveraging the strategy and
engineering systems we built on AWS. We use AWS to do everything from
setting up our cars in chassis tuning simulations to making fuel and
tire strategy calls from the pit boxes during the races. Choosing AWS,
the world’s most versatile and feature-rich cloud service, as our
exclusive cloud provider has allowed us to innovate in ways that weren’t
possible with our previous public cloud provider.”

“Organizations of all sizes and from every industry name speed and
agility among the primary reasons for adopting AWS. Few exemplify the
benefits of this game-changing speed in such a unique way as TRD, which
operates in a world where winning margins are measured in milliseconds,”
said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS.
“Over our three-year relationship with TRD, we’ve empowered them to
accelerate their pace of innovation and gain speed like never before.
Our machine learning and analytics services have enabled TRD to build a
race intelligence system that simulates thousands of races without
setting foot on the track and provides their teams—from the headquarters
to the frontlines—with the ability to turn insights into competitive
advantages on the raceway.”

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About Toyota Racing Development

Powering all of Toyota’s American racing programs is TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota
Racing Development) in Costa Mesa, Calif., and Salisbury, N.C. A
subsidiary of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., TRD serves as the North
American racing arm for design, development, and assembly of Toyota’s
factory racing engines.